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We propose a simple modification from a fixed margin triplet loss to an adaptive margin triplet loss. While the original triplet loss is used widely in classification problems such as face recognition, face re-identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Mai Lan Ha , Volker Blanz

Recently, fully-connected and convolutional neural networks have been trained to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a wide variety of tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, natural language processing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang

We motivate and present Ring loss, a simple and elegant feature normalization approach for deep networks designed to augment standard loss functions such as Softmax. We argue that deep feature normalization is an important aspect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yutong Zheng , Dipan K. Pal , Marios Savvides

The popular softmax loss and its recent extensions have achieved great success in the deep learning-based image classification. However, the data for training image classifiers usually has different quality. Ignoring such problem, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Weihua Liu , Xiabi Liu , Murong Wang , Ling Ma

Heatmap regression with a deep network has become one of the mainstream approaches to localize facial landmarks. However, the loss function for heatmap regression is rarely studied. In this paper, we analyze the ideal loss function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Xinyao Wang , Liefeng Bo , Li Fuxin

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted increasing attention in recent years but remains challenging, due to the intrinsic difficulty in learning to generalize from a few examples. This paper proposes an adaptive margin principle to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Aoxue Li , Weiran Huang , Xu Lan , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Traditional deep learning models rely on methods such as softmax cross-entropy and ArcFace loss for tasks like classification and face recognition. These methods mainly explore angular features in a hyperspherical space, often resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chiranjeev Chiranjeev , Muskan Dosi , Kartik Thakral , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ying Huang , Shangfeng Qiu , Wenwei Zhang , Xianghui Luo , Jinzhuo Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used in computer vision tasks, such as face recognition and verification, and have achieved state-of-the-art results due to their ability to capture discriminative deep features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Alessandro Calefati , Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Shah Nawaz , Ignazio Gallo

Face Recognition (FR) is used in a variety of application domains, from entertainment and banking to security and surveillance. Such applications rely on the FR model to be robust and perform well in a variety of settings. To achieve this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Žiga Babnik , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

Person re-identification aims to match images of the same person across disjoint camera views, which is a challenging problem in video surveillance. The major challenge of this task lies in how to preserve the similarity of the same person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiayun Wang , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang , Qiqi Hou

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment of some racial profiles within society. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Seyma Yucer , Samet Akçay , Noura Al-Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

Existing convolutional neural network (CNN) based face recognition algorithms typically learn a discriminative feature mapping, using a loss function that enforces separation of features from different classes and/or aggregation of features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Luo Jiang , Juyong Zhang , Bailin Deng

In recent years, the learned local descriptors have outperformed handcrafted ones by a large margin, due to the powerful deep convolutional neural network architectures such as L2-Net [1] and triplet based metric learning [2]. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Chaohui Wang

In recent years, the emergence of deep convolutional neural networks has positioned face recognition as a prominent research focus in computer vision. Traditional loss functions, such as margin-based, hard-sample mining-based, and hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Qiqi Guo , Zhuowen Zheng , Guanghua Yang , Zhiquan Liu , Xiaofan Li , Jianqing Li , Jinyu Tian , Xueyuan Gong

Face recognition (FR) using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) has seen remarkable success in recent years. One key ingredient of DCNN-based FR is the appropriate design of a loss function that ensures discrimination between various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Syed Safwan Khalid , Muhammad Awais , Chi-Ho Chan , Zhenhua Feng , Ammarah Farooq , Ali Akbari , Josef Kittler

In this paper, we propose an adaptive margin contrastive learning method for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation, namely AMContrast3D. Most existing methods use equally penalized objectives, which ignore per-point ambiguities and less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yang Chen , Yueqi Duan , Runzhong Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Ce Qi , Fei Su

Deep-Neural-Network (DNN) based speaker verification sys-tems use the angular softmax loss with margin penalties toenhance the intra-class compactness of speaker embeddings,which achieved remarkable performance. In this paper, we pro-pose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Runqiu Xiao